Panel
ca. 1855 (made)
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A panel of moulded leather for upholstery or wall decoration, now in three sections, showing an intermediate stage in the decoration of such panels. The panel shows, overall, two and a half repeats of a formal Louis XIV revival design, centreing on a shaped cartouche in strapwork. The cartouche has straight sides, but shows a double curve at top and bottom, forming a point. The centre of the cartouche is set with a pedestal, with moulded, trellised decoration, supporting a fan-shaped motif, flanked by two birds, with their heads turned to the edge of the panel. The spandrels outside the cartouche are set with formal motifs of acanthus foliage and the sides of the cartouche are flanked with half a shaped cartouche on each side. If the panels were placed edge to edge with others of this pattern these would form narrow, serpentine cartouches between the main ones. The ground of the panel is decorated with small flower and foliage motifs in relief, against a background that is painted in dark green. The edges of the frame of the main cartouche and the edges of some other motifs are decorated in varnished foil, giving the effect of gilding. The painting took place after the foil work and traces of paint are visible on foiled areas
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Embossed and gilded leather |
| Brief description | Embossed leather panel, now in three sections, moulded leather decorated with painting and varnished foil, formal design in Louis XIV revival style, Jacques Michel Dulud, Paris, ca. 1855. This panel shows the panel partially completed. |
| Physical description | A panel of moulded leather for upholstery or wall decoration, now in three sections, showing an intermediate stage in the decoration of such panels. The panel shows, overall, two and a half repeats of a formal Louis XIV revival design, centreing on a shaped cartouche in strapwork. The cartouche has straight sides, but shows a double curve at top and bottom, forming a point. The centre of the cartouche is set with a pedestal, with moulded, trellised decoration, supporting a fan-shaped motif, flanked by two birds, with their heads turned to the edge of the panel. The spandrels outside the cartouche are set with formal motifs of acanthus foliage and the sides of the cartouche are flanked with half a shaped cartouche on each side. If the panels were placed edge to edge with others of this pattern these would form narrow, serpentine cartouches between the main ones. The ground of the panel is decorated with small flower and foliage motifs in relief, against a background that is painted in dark green. The edges of the frame of the main cartouche and the edges of some other motifs are decorated in varnished foil, giving the effect of gilding. The painting took place after the foil work and traces of paint are visible on foiled areas |
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| Object history | Acquired at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855', pages 67, 80. Purchased for £1 2 shillings 6 pence. Identical to V&A Museum no's 3692A-1856, 3692B-1856, 3693-1856, 3694-1856. Identical panels can also be found in the Deutsches Tapetenmuseum, Kassel, inv.no. 5/5, and as part of the wall hanging in the house Keizer Karelstraat 75, Gent, Belgium (1992). This is the 19th-century version of V&A Museum no's 476-1869, 477-1869. Another version of the design, in Schloss Weesenstein, Saxony, Germany, is illustrated in Jean-Pierre Fournet, Cuirs Dorées, "Cuirs de Cordoue", un Art Européen (Château de Saint-Remy-en-l'Eau: Editions Monelle Hayot, 2019), p. 158, fig. 215, that version dated to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Two other versions, from the Glass Tielker Collection, D-Hückelhaveare illustrated on p. 177, figs. 242a&b, with a note that very similar panels were made by the workshop of Carolous Jacobs in Malines, notably for the Hôtel de Ville at Furnes (Veurnes) in Belgium, where it can still be seen in the Albertzaal. |
| Production | Made at the 'Cuirs Dulud' workshop, 14 rue Vivienne, Paris. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Robinson, J.C. ed. Inventory of objects in the collections of the museum of ornamental art at the South Kensington Museum. London, 1860. p.113, no. 9623 |
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| Accession number | 3692 to B-1856 |
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